GPU/CPU roadmaps

[Chad J]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
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> Sweeney makes some strong points in his presentation, it's true that the line between CPU and GPU is growing thinner and thinner,  and GPU programming is not the easiest thing to learn. I had an easier time learning ASM than I did learning the GPU pipeline in OpenGL heh. However it's just like everything else, its much harder to learn it than to use it once you get the hang of it.
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> The D language definitely has what it takes to fully exploit the concepts of this presentation, most of what he mentions about the language and compiler are either already covered by D or are being talked about.
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> I wouldn't be surprised to see major games releases built in D in a few years.

I'd love to see that, though I worry that the existing C++ codebase
(mostly in middleware) is too momentous.  It's like garbage trucks on ice.

But man, with the scale the game industry works on, it'd totally be
worth their while.  They'd be able to halve their coder population and
use the other half to write new libraries in D.  Once that's done the
other half can be used to make more games or make games more awesome.
Convincing them of this is another story :/